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Links The following links are in alphabetical order. General content areas are coded with the following abbreviations:
America’s Promise: The Alliance for Youth http://www.americaspromise.org/ MH, Delinq., DA, Health Maintained by America’s Promise – The Alliance for Youth, a national not-for-profit organization led by General Colin Powell. America’s Promise is dedicated to mobilizing the nation to ensure our children and youth have access to the fundamental resources they need to become successful adults. The organization acts as a catalyst, encouraging public, private, and non-profit organizations, to support five fundamental resources for youth: mentors (caring adults), protection (safe places and constructive things to do in their after-school hours), nurturing (a healthy start), preparation (marketable skills through effective education), and service (giving back to others). In this way, the organization builds strength and resilience among youth. Center for Education and Drug Abuse
Research (CEDAR) This web page is a consortium between the University of Pittsburgh and St. Francis Medical Center, funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse. This is a highly research-oriented web page, arising out of a collaborative long-term study of children of substance-abusing fathers, psychiatrically disturbed fathers, and normal fathers. The plan is to follow children from ages 10-12 to age 30, with eight separate intensive biobehavioral and social contextual assessments. As of July 1998, the age 19 assessment is underway, and 705 families are participating in the project. Findings from the project are available on the web page. Because training and education are also a goal of the project, the page also provides (un-annotated) links to assessment, prevention (18 links), treatment, health data, and consumer information sites. Center for the Prevention of School Violence http://www.ncsu.edu/cpsv/ V Maintained by the Center for the Prevention of School Violence at North Carolina State University. The Center’s web page contains information, programs, and research about preventing school violence. Unfortunately, the page is hard to navigate due to the over-use of the color red in links and in borders. The "Safe Schools Pyramid" is the Center’s way of organizing promising, student-centered, violence prevention programs. Institute for Prevention Research This web page represents the work of an academic institute, and is on the more technical end. Available here are abstracts to publications, descriptions of research programs, and an outline of the Institute’s outreach efforts. Join Together Online (JTO) http://www.jointogether.org/ DA, V Maintained by the Boston University School of Public Health, with funding from The Robert Wood Johnson and Joyce Foundations. Joint Together is a national resource center for communities working to reduce substance abuse and gun violence. The home page noted above is a jumping-off point for four web pages: a substance abuse page, a gun violence page, an photo page, and a quit-smoking page. The first two of these are described here. The JTO/Substance Abuse page offers comprehensive listings of resources, facts and web sites. They publish 15-20 news and funding articles every weekday. Their searchable archive, containing over 17,000 articles, provides access to timely and accurate information and analysis. The JTO/Gun Violence page offers many of the same features found on the substance abuse site -- daily news, funding news, events calendar, action alerts, legisaltive action tools and links to other web sites. Join Together Online offers an e-mail service, with daily or weekly messages delivered to your e-mail box. These are the updates of national news, research, alerts and funding news published on their web site. Juvenile Violence Prevention and
Intervention Maintained by the National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges (headquartered at the University of Nevada, Reno.) This page consists of a 10-page, referenced list divided into three sections: Principles of Effective Delinquency Prevention and Early Intervention, Ages/Stages of Child Development and Appropriate Prevention and Intervention, and Intervention Points for the Court: The Juvenile Justice System. It is a provides a good overview of issues and topics in the area of delinquency prevention. National Families in Action Maintained by National Families in Action, a national drug education, prevention, and policy center based in Atlanta, Georgia. The mission of National Families in Action is to help families and communities prevent drug abuse among children by promoting policies based on science. A key strategy in their efforts to prevent drug abuse is promotion of knowledge about drugs’ harmful effects. There is some useful information here about the effects of various drugs. A mini-web page at this site emphasizes parents’ role in prevention: the "Parenting Is Prevention Project," http://www.emory.edu/NFIA/PIPP/index.html. As of January, 99, the main web page is being redesigned and not all links are yet active.
National Governor’s Association
Center for Best Practices Maintained by the National Governors’ Association This site includes but is not limited to issues related to prevention. The categories are Education, Environment, Health, Transportation, Welfare Reform and Workforce Development, and Other Issues. Within these areas are links to issue briefs, highlights, and full text reports on a wide range of issues. One report lists 66 promising programs, submitted by 30 states, in the Promising Practices to Improve Results for Young Children report (http://www.nga.org/PromisingPractices/default.htm). It should be noted that not all of these programs have had formal evaluations, and therefore, claims of efficacy are sometimes unsupported by rigorous evidence. Office of Juvenile Justice and
Delinquency Prevention Maintained by the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention. This site provides information about the federal comprehensive strategy to fight delinquency, programs and demonstration projects funded by their organization, and information on missing and exploited children. The $42 million Safe Futures program is profiled here, as are the Drug-Free Communities Support Program, the Juvenile Mentoring Program (JUMP), the National Youth Network, Safe Kids / Safe Streets, and the Youth Environmental Service (YES). Pavnet Online: Partnerships Against
Violence Network
Maintained by The U.S. Department of Justice’s National Institute of Justice (NIJ) and the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Extension Service (ES) and National Agricultural Library (NAL). PAVNET Online is a "virtual library" of information about violence and youth-at-risk, representing data from seven different Federal agencies. It is a "one-stop," searchable, information resource to provide clear and comprehensive access to information for States and local communities. The home page has four central "hot" buttons: Programs, Curricula, Funding, and Tech Info (Technical Assistance). Each of these leads to a well-organized list of references to program descriptions, brochures, videotapes, contact information, and the like. Descriptions of material, but no actual manuals or guides, are posted on the page. The mission of the page is to list promising programs and curricula, but information on program evaluation is missing or weak in many cases. Rather, the current listings are comprehensive rather than selective. Although new programs are continually added to the web site, some listings have not been updated since 1994/1995, so contact information may not be current in all cases. The President’s Crime Prevention Council http://www.reeusda.gov/pavnet/whitehouse/index.htm Delinq. Not currently maintained. The President's Crime Prevention Council ceased operations effective March 28, 1998. The web site is still operational, and in its organizations/contacts/resources section, provides quite a nice annotated list of resources for information related to the prevention of crime. A helpful listing of "federal help on the iternet" is also provided. A President’s Crime Prevention Council Catalog is available, and contains a document guiding communities through the planning process for developing and implementing their own crime prevention initiatives. The Prevention Connection This effort to collect prevention information on the world wide web is still in its infancy, and the page is troubled by technical problems. However, it will soon contain a particularly valuable resource: access to a database containing summaries of research on the effectiveness of prevention and health promotion efforts with children and adolescents. This database contains up-to-date scientific reviews of the effectiveness of various prevention programs, thus cutting through the hype about programs that may have better publicity than outcomes. The Prevention Connection also contains links to professional conferences.
Prevention First Online Maintained by Prevention First, Inc., a State of Illinois company offering training, consultation, information services and advocacy. This site is largely for residents of Illinois. For those individuals, details of a library and clearinghouse are available, as are a vast array of training resources. Links to Illinois programs are also available. The Prevention Primer http://www.health.org/pubs/primer/ DA Maintained by the Center for Substance Abuse Prevention, an office of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Admimistration, US Department of Health and Human Services This web page is an excellent resource for prevention practitioners interested in issues related to drug, alcohol, and tobacco use. The web page consists of an alphabetical list of over 50 topics, such as "African-American Youth," "Community Partnerships," "Parents and Prevention," and "Prevention Strategies." Clicking on any topic title will lead to a brief, easy-to-read report, complete with references for further reading. More detailed information on these topics can be obtained by contacting the National Clearinghouse for Alcohol and Drug Information (NCADI), 1-800-729-6686, TDD 1-800-487-4889.
Prevline: Prevention Online: The National
Clearinghouse for Alcohol and Drug Information Maintained by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, US Department of Health and Human Services This page is a parent page of the Prevention Primer (reviewed above), and is also concerned with issues of substance use. Information on prevention with adults, through workplace and other initiatives, is included as well. This page is on the "monstrously extensive" side, and it can be a bit difficult to find what one is looking for easily. The resources and referrals section contains further links to areas with vast numbers of documents. For example, documents for prevention program planners are available at http://www.health.org/planner.htm. A database of references for prevention materials may be found at http://www.health.org/DBarea/pmd.htm. (A search for materials related to "violence" turned up 184 items.) Best of all, Prevline provides a searchable index of this and 23 other authoritative web sites with information on substance abuse prevention and treatment. Information on illicit drugs, alcohol, and tobacco are provided in these web sites. |
